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Three workmen are plastering the base of a pale grey concrete block wall at an outdoor construction site on bare red-brown earth. The man in the centre, wearing a striped shirt and grey trousers, crouches low with a trowel at the wall's base. Another man in a peach shirt and grey trousers walks past, and a man in a white shirt and dark trousers holds a metal tray of mortar at right. A metal pan and sandbags lie on the ground, and a white building with blue doors and yellow flowering shrubs stands in the background.

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September 07 20092009-09-07A photograph of construction work at an outdoor site beside a whitewashed concrete-block wall. A man in a checked shirt, grey trousers and blue flip-flops bends over a bed of wet grey cement mixed with gravel, smoothing it with a long wooden-handled tool. Behind him, a worker in a white shirt and white trousers carries a tray of material on his head, and another person in white stands near a sack. Palm trees and dry red earth fill the background.2007-05-21August 03 20132013-08-03A construction worker in a grey cap and red-and-white striped short-sleeved shirt with white trousers plasters a concrete column with a trowel on an outdoor building site. Beside him, a worker in a white head cloth and checked shirt crouches beside a metal bowl of wet mortar. Grey concrete block walls, a steel frame, rebar and gravel surround them, with unfinished buildings visible in the background.2009-12-15A young man in a white and blue striped short-sleeved shirt and blue denim shorts crouches on a concrete step, smoothing wet grey plaster onto a rough wall with a flat trowel. He is leaning in with a focused expression, and the surface he works on is freshly plastered in grey. The setting appears to be a building under construction or renovation. No other people are visible.2010-01-26Outdoor construction scene beside a grey stone boundary wall with red brick coping and green shrubs and trees behind. Three labourers work on a concrete or mortar strip: a man in a white shirt and grey trousers holds a long-handled trowel, a man in a checked shirt, blue-and-white lungi and red headcloth stands watching, and a shirtless man in a lungi pours from a round metal pan along a rope-guided line. Dry earth lies in the foreground. A small white plaque or stone sits atop the wall.2006-12-19A construction site at a temple compound with a partially built concrete block wall with crenellated tops. Several men work on the ground in front of it: two monastics in saffron-orange robes and shawls bend over a low work area with bowls and rubble, a man in a blue and white checked shirt and beige trousers stands nearby, another man in a white shirt and dhoti gestures with an arm raised, a man in a red-and-pink checked shirt watches, and a man in grey shirt and checked lungi stands at right. Piles of gravel and dirt lie on the ground, a bamboo pole rises beside the wall, and palm and leafy trees stand behind.2006-12-12June 24 20132013-06-24Four men in plain white shirts and dhotis or lungis bend over a freshly levelled dirt floor inside a block-walled enclosure at night, working with their hands and tools to smooth the ground. Warm artificial light falls across the uneven earth, and tall brick walls, some unfinished, surround the site. A pink cloth hangs from the right wall. The scene shows construction groundwork at an ashram building site.2006-10-06November 19 20162016-11-19Two workers are plastering or finishing a grey concrete-block wall indoors. The man in the foreground wears a cream striped button-up shirt and raises his arm, holding a trowel against a vertical concrete column. Beside him, a second worker in a faded grey-blue shirt and a light blue head cloth reaches up to the wall. A pale blue chalk line runs horizontally along the lower wall, and a metal pipe rises along the right edge beside an unfinished concrete opening. The scene shows ordinary construction work at the ashram. +1 copiesThree young men work outdoors on bare red earth beside a pile of rough grey granite blocks. The man on the left, in a white short-sleeved shirt and light grey trousers, crouches barefoot while pressing wet grey material. The man on the right, in a striped shirt and checked lungi-style cloth, shapes a curved wet clay form on a concrete base. A third man in a white shirt crouches behind them. A yellow bucket sits on the ground, with broken red bricks and scattered stones around. No ritual or festival activity is visible, and no recognizable a person figure appears in the scene.2013-06-05